About Us

GETTING OUT BY GOING IN provides simple tools for making positive choices. Delivered in our books, workbooks, workshops and classroom settings, GOGI is focused on one thing: Positive Choices.

The GOGI program is designed to help participants “Get Out” of old behavior by “Going In” for self-improvement. Our coaches empower the individual with information, opportunity and support for lasting change.

Coach Mara Leigh Taylor is a “Champion for Change,” excelling in the field of personal and professional excellence for more than a decade. Through her work with incarcerated individuals, she developed RapidChange Therapy, a proven methodology for rapid and lasting behavioral and cognitive modification.

Working within the Federal and State penal systems with incarcerated individuals to share techniques of RapidChange Therapy, Mara Leigh Taylor is affectionately known as “Coach” Taylor. Her unofficial title evolved from initial uncertainty on the part of inmates, and it eventually helped define her reputation.

When I first began working with inmates, they didn’t really know what to call me. I wasn’t trying to ‘correct’ or convert them. I was simply sharing RapidChange Therapy tools which result in lasting changes. I told them I was sort of a coach of the mind, so they began referring to me as ‘Coach’ Taylor.

By any name, the results of her efforts elicited hundreds of positive responses from both juvenile and adult inmates in the Federal and State penal system.

Coach Taylor began volunteer workshops for positive decision making with Federal inmates in 2002. In 2005 she founded the California-based non-profit Getting Out by Going In to serve the 2.3 million incarcerated men, women and children in the United States. In three short years more than 1,000 inmates have directly participated in the GOGI workshops and classes and more than 2,000 GOGI books have been gifted to requesting incarcerated individuals across the U.S.

GOGI Campus

In a pilot program with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Coach Taylor designed and facilitated the first Coordinated Community Collaboration Reentry project, GOGI Campus. Participating inmates receive on-going community and psychological support from GOGI Coaches before, during and after their release. GOGI Campus is the first continuum care project of its kind and a model for future reentry GOGI Campus sites. GOGI Campus is a replicable reentry program, providing much-needed coordinated community support for successful reentry.

RapidChange Therapy

Coach Taylor designed and developed the brief therapy modality, RapidChange Therapy, a cognitive tool-based theory for incarcerated and at-risk men, women and children. Effective for implementation when therapy sessions may be limited, RapidChange Therapy offers individuals a simple set of cognitive tools to aid future cognitions. The core RapidChange Therapy tools are simplified in Coach Taylor’s first book for inmates, Prison: Getting Out by Going In.

Training & Certification of Coaches

Coach Taylor leads on-going training of Masters and PsyD level practicum and intern therapists and psychologists who earn their certification as “Coach” with a competency in administering the RapidChange Therapy tools.

Private Practice

Coach Taylor maintains an exclusive and referral-only based private practice for entertainment industry executives in Southern California.

Author

Coach Taylor is the author of:

Prison: Getting Out by Going In

Women in Prison: Getting Out by Going In

Inside Job: One Man’s Journey to Freedom

Speaker

Coach Taylor’s credentials as a guest and keynote speaker include:

2008 World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, Delhi, India

International Women in Film, Hollywood, California

Terminal Island Federal Bureau of Prisons, San Pedro, California